[Vision2020] [Bulk] Re: water development

[Paul Rumelhart]

Conservation, while being cheapest, also has the most limited 
potential.  There is a finite minimum that can be reached, and if there 
is any growth involved that minimum will eventually creep up to where we 
are anyway.

I would rather have to shoulder a bit of a burden tax-wise in order to 
see a definite solution that will be less restrictive.  I'll leave it to 
the experts to find the most cost-effective solution that will help out 
the most in the long run.

Paul

Mark Solomon wrote:
> I don't know about Washington, but the Nez Perce Tribe might have 
> something significant to say as those are waters covered under their 
> settlement with the state. A more probable but still highly unlikely 
> source would be the N. Fk of the Palouse above Laird Park. Unlikely 
> because of the cost of a pipeline, diversion structure, pump station 
> (to get around/over Moscow Mountain.
>
> Conservation is still the cheapest source of "new water". As I've 
> discussed here previously, new development could fund conservation 
> implementation to offset a development's water demand. Simple 
> balancing of the water checkbook.
>
> m.
>
> At 4:43 PM -0700 4/14/07, Sunil Ramalingam wrote:
>   
>> Thanks, Mark.
>>
>> I also wonder that if money were available for such a project, 
>> setting aside any environmental concerns, Moscow would be able to 
>> appropriate Clearwater River water.  Wouldn't Washington users 
>> downstream have superior claims that would make such a project 
>> difficult?
>>
>> Sunil
>>
>>     
>>> From: Mark Solomon <msolomon at moscow.com>
>>> To: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>,        Sunil 
>>> Ramalingam <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>, vision2020 at moscow.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] water development
>>> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:01:11 -0700
>>>
>>> Sunil is referring to the study done by the Army Corps of Engineers 
>>> sometime way back when that looked at the Palouse, Clearwater and 
>>> Snake Rivers as possible water sources for Moscow. Even back then 
>>> (1974 I think) the energy costs of pumping water uphill to Moscow 
>>> were prohibitive. The only person I know who has an actual copy of 
>>> the study is Joel Hamilton. There is likely one in the UI library.
>>>
>>> m.
>>>       
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